netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] gro: relax ID check in inet_gro

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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:39:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	maze@...gle.com, dkravkov@...il.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dmitry@...adcom.com, eilong@...adcom.com,
	pshelar@...ira.com, hkchu@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] gro: relax ID check in inet_gro_receive()

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:37:38 -0700

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:05 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>
>> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:47:07 -0700
>>
>>> They might create non incrementing IP ID packet sequences on the wire,
>>> and this may prevent GRO from kicking in, but it does not make TSO
>>> non-reversible
>>> (if anything it makes it easy to detect that it happened).
>>
>> This is not an acceptable outcome for any form GSO, it should be
>> completely transparent.  The packets we would have output individually
>> and those which result from the segmented frame must be
>> indistinguishable.
> 
> We actually don't set the outer IP ID for GRE packets with the DF bit
> set in the non-GSO/TSO case either (and this is not new behavior).
> Obviously TCP/IP header compression doesn't apply to the GRE packet
> itself.
> 
> Therefore, I think if the driver is switched to increment the inner
> ID, which it sounds like it can be, then everything should be
> transparent.

That's my impression as well.
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